Daily Manna 11 May
KEY VERSE: “Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?” – (1 Kings 14:29)
READ: 1 Kings 14:21-31 (KJV)
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. 22 Now Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built for themselves high[a] places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree. 24 And there were also [b]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
25 It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made. 27 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and [c]committed them to the hands of the captains of the [d]guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house. 28 And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31 So Rehoboam [e]rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then Abijam[f] his son reigned in his place.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ was wont to say in answer to questions from the people of His day: “It is written…” Or He would say: “What is written?” On one occasion, He asked: “How readest thou?” But the Lord did not always talk about what was written. There is a record that at a point He did not want to find out what was written; instead, He “stooped down, and wrote on the ground” (John 8:8). In His post-resurrection majesty, the Lord underscored the power of the written word when He told Apostle John to “write the things which thou hast seen” (Revelation 1:19).
Now, about 1000 years before the advent of Jesus Christ, God also commissioned some writers to chronicle the lives and times of the kings of both the southern and northern kingdoms of Israel after the breakup of the united nation. What was written about most of them was not elevating. The Bible writes of Judah in the era of Rehoboam, the king: “And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy…And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out…”
The chroniclers also note this terrifying event: Judah’s transgression led to its invasion by Egypt. The king of Egypt seized all the golden treasures of the house of God. All the wealth created by Solomon for Israel to be a leading nation on earth vanished in the twinkling of an eye under the watch of Rehoboam.
If these misdeeds of Judah and her kings did not escape the eyes of those who recorded their history, it is certain that our deeds here on earth cannot dodge the unfailing radar of heaven. It has a relentless second-by-second audio-visual taping of words uttered and unspoken, of actions taken secretly or openly, and of motives behind every move.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: What does your record look like before God?
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Corinthians 8-11
Thank you for studying today’s Daily Manna – What’s Written About You? – by Pastor Enoch A.
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Daily Manna 11 May 2021
